Encouraging Fresh Perspectives
Social Justice Research Fellowships
The Social Justice Institute Leadership Collective represents a wide variety of disciplines and research interests and are always looking to expand their knowledge and extend the university's reach. Case Western Reserve University professors and students are no less inquisitive and are committed to pursuing social justice in a myriad of ways.
To encourage innovation and scholarship, the institute has established a Social Justice Research Fellowship Program that, through grants, funds faculty and student research that advances social justice work, from humanistic inquiry to action research.
Previous grants have supported proposals that focus on issues that are both local and global. From youth development to elderly care; from political systems to individual recovery efforts, these projects have represented the same diversity as their recipients. The Social Justice Institute is proud to announce the faculty, graduate and undergraduate research fellows, past and present:
FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS
Center for Engineering Action (CEngA) Symposium on Responsible Community Partnerships
Andrew Rollins, Kurt Rhoads, Umut Gurkan, and Lynn Rollins
Center for Engineering Action Leadership Team
2019-2020
Race, Food and Justice 2020: Analyzing the Urban Food Movement through a Social Justice Lens
Application Coordinator, Graduate Admissions, Weatherhead School of Management
2019-2020
Sing my Brother, Sing! Say what’s on your mind; Do it with a rhyme! with Dr. David L. Moody
Loretta Laffitte-Griffin
Coordinator, CWRU Cashier's Office
2019-2020
Clinician Perspectives on Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality
Marsha Michie
Assistant Professor of Bioethics
2018-2019
Project collaboration with Kavita Shah Arora + Aaron J. Goldenberg
Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Avidan Y. Cover
Associate Professor of Law
2017-2018
Using Photovoice to Capture Diverse Experiences of Cleveland's Opioid Crisis
Lee Hoffer
Associate Professor of Anthropology
2017-2018
Project Collaboration with Allison Schlosser
Anthropology-Engineering Collaborative (AEC): Designing Interdisciplinary Solutions to Global Health Problems
Janet W. McGrath
Professor of Anthropology
2016-2017
Andrew Rollins
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine
2016-2017
In Search Of . . . Smarter and Fairer Approaches to Federal Tax Subsidies
Matthew J. Rossman
Professor of Law
2016-2017
View the research abstract and article here.
Lost and Found - Collective Identity Recovery through Legacy
Diana Bilimoria
KeyBank Professor and Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management
2015-2016
Project collaboration with Morgan Bulger + Keimei Sugiyama
Forest Hill Neighborhood Study - How Racial and Cultural Affinities Inform Residential Preferences and Considerations of Neighborhood Desirability
Cassi Pittman
Assistant Professor of Sociology
2015-2016
The Quest for Rights & Justice in Authoritarian Enclaves
Kelly McMann
Associate Professor of Political Science
2014-2015
Masculinities, Fatherhood, and Marginalized Urban Communities
Timothy Black
Associate Professor of Sociology
2014-2015
COURSE REDESIGN GRANTS
An Interdisciplinary Engineering-focused Social Justice Capstone
Daniel Lacks
C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering
2014-2015
GRADUATE STUDENT GRANTS
Being and Belonging: Transnational Lives of Second Generation Arab Americans
Luma AlMasarweh
Graduate Student, Sociology
2019-2020
Mobility, Agency, and Inequality in Late-Life: Approaching Puerto Rican Elderhood from an Intersectional Life Course Perspective
Brooke Jespersen
Graduate Student, Anthropology
2019-2020
Exploring the Role of PrEP Implementation Strategies in Reducing Disparities to HIV Prevention Services
Julie Schexnayder
Graduate Student, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
2019-2020
Crowded Work: A Participant-Observation Study of Platform Labor
Michael R. Slone
Graduate Student, Sociology
2019-2020
Reducing Lung Cancer Disparities at a Community Scale using a Multilevel, Data-driven Approach
Uriel Kim
Graduate Student, Clinical Translational Science
2018-2019
Ancestral Medicine and Cultural Persistence: Community Resistance to Colonialism and Cultural Commodification on Rapa Nui
Sonya Petrakovitz
Graduate Student, Medical Anthropology
2018-2019
An Investigation of the Detroit Shoreway Developing Neighborhood
Lacey Caporale
Graduate Student, Sociology
2017-2018
The Effects of TRAP Laws on the Timing of Abortion
Elizabeth Nalepa
Graduate Student, Sociology
2016-2017
Masculinity, Gender Norms and HIV Risk in Low-Income Communities in Kampala, Uganda: An ethnographic pilot study
Megan Schmidt-Sane
Graduate Student, Medical Anthropology
2016-2017
Transnational Health Care in Urban Brazil
Frank Manzella
Graduate Student, Anthropology
2015-2016
Belonging and Experience: An Ethnographic Study of Addiction Treatment in the Post-Welfare United States
Allison Schlosser
Graduate Student, Anthropology
2014-2015
Family Care Arrangement and Elder Mistreatment for Dementia Patients in China
Yan Zhang
Graduate Student, Medical Anthropology
2014-2015
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GRANTS
Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid with Dr. Richard Falk
Tim O'Shea
Undergraduate Student
2019-2020
Fish and Gender Displacement: Actor-Networks of Community Fisheries Management in Senegal
Leo Ndiaye
Junior, Environmental and International Studies
2018-2019
Examining HIV Prevalence and Risk Behavior within Johannesburg Townships Affected Differently by Apartheid
Jennifer Nielsen
Junior, Medical Anthropology and Public Health
2018-2019
"I Do Wanna Dance": The Lived Experiences of Professional Dancers of Color
MaryTherese Escueta
Senior, Sociology and Dance
2017-2018
A Dynamic Analysis and History of Street Medics in the United States
Anjana Renganathan
Senior, Biology
2017-2018
